NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Moody’s Analytics, a leader in risk management solutions, today announced the availability of a new probability of default (PD) model for assessing the credit risk of private firms in China. The model is available for use with RiskCalc Plus, an enhanced version of RiskCalc. RiskCalc combines financial statement and equity market information into a highly predictive assessment of standalone credit risk. Additional models for Russia and the Emerging Markets will be available in the third quarter of 2010, extending the analytical capability of RiskCalc to private firm credit worldwide.

“Understanding risk when leasing and lending to private firms has always been a challenge,” said Anuj Gupta, Director of Product Management at Moody’s Analytics. “With the RiskCalc China model, a credit analyst can now determine a probability of default value for a potential deal in China based on historical default rates of similar Chinese private firms, providing a significant competitive advantage.” The model was developed and validated using more than 800,000 financial statements from over 300,000 Chinese companies.

In addition, RiskCalc Plus has been enhanced to include Peer Analysis, which allows lenders to compare borrower risk between firms in the same industry and with similar asset profiles. RiskCalc Plus also includes enhancements that allow users to chart probability of default for up to six years, deepening their understanding of default risk trends. Further enhancements to RiskCalc Plus in the third quarter of 2010 will include additional reporting options and storage capabilities.

RiskCalc Plus and the new Probability of Default models for China, Russia and Emerging Markets are based on data contained in the Moody’s Analytics Credit Research Database (CRD™). The CRD, built in partnership with more than 45 leading financial institutions around the world, contains 36 million financial statements on 6.5 million firms and more than 600,000 private company defaults, yielding unique insight into private firm default probability.

For more information, visit: www.moodys.com/riskcalc

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Moody's Analytics is a leading provider of research, data, analytic tools and related services to debt capital markets and credit risk management professionals worldwide. The company's products and services provide the means to assess and manage the credit risk of individual exposures as well as portfolios; price and value holdings of debt instruments; analyze macroeconomic trends; and enhance customers' risk management skills and practices. Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), which reported revenue of $1.8 billion in 2009, employs approximately 4,000 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 26 countries. Additional information about the company is available at www.moodys.com.